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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a nearly $1.2 billion contract to build the first lot of eight F-15EX advanced fighter jets, the first two being built at the Boeing F-15 production facility in St. Louis for delivery next year.

Elbit Systems is expanding the operational capabilities of the Seagull Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) beyond anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and mines countermeasure (MCM).

AeroVironment, Inc. announced the U.S. Army exercised the first of three options under the sole source Flight Control Systems (FCS) domain of the Army’s multi-year small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) contract, valued at $21,058,643 and includes avionics and data link upgrade packages to modify radio frequencies employed by the Army’s existing fleet of Raven® tactical UAS.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that during its fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, its Santa Clara, Calif.-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc. was awarded contracts valued at more than $2.2 million for Ka-Band high-power traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) for trailer-based satellite communications terminals.

OneWeb announced that it has entered into an agreement with a consortium led by HMG (through the U.K. Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy) and Bharti Global Limited (“Bharti”) for the acquisition of the OneWeb business in connection with its court-supervised sale process.

Sensor system supplier HENSOLDT has been awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space to develop and produce a new active electronic scanning array (AESA) radar for the German and Spanish Eurofighter fleets.

During Armed Forces Week, BAE Systems and the Royal Navy announced a £3.2 million autonomous boat contract that will increase Navy’s capabilities while protecting sailor’s lives.

Mercury Systems, Inc. announced it received a $25 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for integrated RF and digital subsystems for an advanced naval electronic support application.